OpenStack

451 Research has covered OpenStack since its early days, and regularly field a variety of OpenStack-related inquiries and Advisory engagements. In the past, questions were mainly about its viability, the competitive landscape and investment opportunities. While we continue to get questions about the competitive landscape, there is now more interest from the service-provider and enterprise communities about adoption trends and the workloads deployed on OpenStack.

We produce an annual 'pulse check' on the OpenStack business models that have emerged and changed, including quantitative market-sizing data, regional perspectives and customer-survey feedback. We cover a variety of software vendors and service providers that are leveraging OpenStack both internally and for commercial offerings, and we provide up-to-date insight on the open source platform's functionality, governance and direction.

Voice of the Enterprise

Is IBM-Red Hat deal reaction a sign of mega-deal fatigue? New survey sounds off

At first look, the overall impression about IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat was predominately neutral (40%), with only 20% of respondents saying they feel at least somewhat positive about the announcement, and 23% saying they feel somewhat negative.

451 Research Says Application Containers Market Will Grow to Reach $4.3bn by 2022

The latest applications container market research indicates this market will continue to expand and be worth more than $2.1 billion in 2019 and more than $4.3 billion in 2022 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30%, according to the latest Market Monitor Cloud-Enabling Technologies – Application Containers study.

The bulk of OpenStack revenue (80%) is currently generated by seven top vendors, with Rackspace as the notable leader in terms of market share. The remaining 20% of revenue is distributed across 79 vendors.

The sheer size of the nation's IT industry, combined with ongoing government support for indigenous technologies, make China a hotbed of innovation, particularly when it comes to deploying open source software.

Quobyte aims to disrupt software-defined storage with its Data Center File System

Software-defined storage (SDS) vendor Quobyte offers a distributed file system that can accommodate storage operating at the petabyte scale. The appeal of SDS lies in its accompanying increase in agility and scalability, and Quobyte joins several other startups attacking primary storage incumbents.

The benefit of open source software is that anyone can use, add, customize or amend it, and theoretically, any application built to take advantage of its features should work regardless of where it is situated and who is operating it.